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RTDNTOTO šŸ» Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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Several People of Advancing Age have asked me about the enormous trend, quiet quitting, over the past few years. I'm going to call it "live downskilling" next time.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
People out west like to say "sale" in place of "sell." Such as, "I should sale my 1986 Yugo." Perhaps this occurs elsewhere but I've only come across it in the last 15 years.
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I can't tell you how much I love that you chose a 1986 Yugo as the object of your example. Ha! I just hate the south-valley accent:

"Don't I have nice laygs?" I have to walk to the mell-box, that's why my laygs are so nice." Kill me.
 
ursus said:
I can't tell you how much I love that you chose a 1986 Yugo as the object of your example. Ha! I just hate the south-valley accent:

"Don't I have nice laygs?" I have to walk to the mell-box, that's why my laygs are so nice." Kill me.
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Those things that come out of chickens are called "aygs." Those two appendages that help you walk are pronounced "laygs". And post is delivered to one's "mayl box"
 
Maister said:
Those things that come out of chickens are called "aygs." Those two appendages that help you walk are pronounced "laygs". And post is delivered to one's "mayl box"
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I can concede the former two, but am interested in the proper pronunciation of mayl box...
 
I am wincing reading those pronunciations - but I have a weird mix of Syracuse/NY/Boston/Maine accent going so I know I can't say much
 
luckless pedestrian said:
I am wincing reading those pronunciations - but I have a weird mix of Syracuse/NY/Boston/Maine accent going so I know I can't say much
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I would love to spend all my time parsing out tiny local dialects and colloquial speech patterns. Like Henry Higgins, or Colonel Pickering! I'll bet you have a really interesting hybridized accent.

Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?
 
ursus said:
I would love to spend all my time parsing out tiny local dialects and colloquial speech patterns. Like Henry Higgins, or Colonel Pickering! I'll bet you have a really interesting hybridized accent.

Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?
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I read that in his voice in my head!
 
Town held a second "neighborhood information meeting" last night since they screwed up everything on the first one.

End result is that the applicant is going to opt to pull the lot across the street from consideration in the rezoning request. They're gonna pull some land from the bigger tract to get the one across the street to an acre so they have the option to place a duplex on it (2 units per acre here, duplexes allowed anywhere in town if they meet density standards).

Hilariously, this is basically what I suggested to the town manager and planner handling this case over a month ago. My idea was to split it into two lots for single family homes. They tweaked it a bit, but whatever. The alternative was much worse. My gut says they'll never do a thing with this lot, we shall see.
 
joscoffee said:
Got me thinking about "upholstery".
I don't think many are even susceptible to being holstered in the first place
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According to 30 seconds of googling, it comes from "uphold", where an upholsterer would stuff and repair furniture, thus upholding its usefulness and integrity.

Are we OK with "uphold?" "Holdup" doesn't mean the same thing so I'm inclined to be OK with it.
 
ursus said:
Mission accomplished. :) Made my day.
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One of the reasons we moved to Germany was so that we could enjoy the football/soccer culture and enjoy going to some games. We were able to go to a few games when we first got here. Then our city's team got good and now we can rarely get tickets. First world problems but still frustrating. šŸ˜žšŸ˜­
 
How is this for small world spinning -
Now I know of 3 people who live in Germany -
1 - through Cyburbia - dandy
2 - local owner of GIS company married to a woman from Germany & spend summers there with her family
3 - women who I knew growing up - married to a German & moved there
 
Now it's a meaningless question
To ask if they've been and gone
I remember a talk about North Carolina
And a strange, strange pond
You see the sides were like glass
In the thick of a forest without a road
And if any man's hand ever made that land
Then I think it would have showed
 
Faust_Motel said:
I HATE when people leave out infinitives! I never encountered such until moving out west and my (otherwise wonderful) boss said "Faust, your timesheet needs fixed.." :grimace:
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That's just like your opinion, dude.

And anyway, you might be right, Walter, but you are still an axxhole. šŸ˜
 
Lorna. It's just a name. Until you pair it with Doone. Then it's cookies.

Walter is just a name. Until you pair it with Weight. Then it's a non-existent boxing weight class I thought was really how it was said until I was twenty-one. True shit.

Baby. It's just a name that cool people call their significant other. Until you pair it with Cakes. Then it's just a name that nerdy people call their significant other. Probably to tick them off.

Words mean things. Ya-huh they do.
 
Gedunker said:
Now it's a meaningless question
To ask if they've been and gone
I remember a talk about North Carolina
And a strange, strange pond
You see the sides were like glass
In the thick of a forest without a road
And if any man's hand ever made that land
Then I think it would have showed
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oh my brain went right to the dreamy sequence that only Christine McVie could do - thank you - that's a great album btw
 
Maister said:
Sure wish I could enjoy a hearty meal tonight featuring flavorful Salisbury steak, creamy mashed potatoes, and green beans.

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My husband texted me a photo of a La Choy Chicken Chow Mein two can package today. He was like what in the hell is this. I laughed and told him itā€™s mystery meat in salty sauce in the top can and ā€œAsianā€ veggies packed in water in the bottom can and itā€™s supposed to be eaten with chow mein noodles that taste like twigs. His response was ā€œOnly in America!ā€
 
Big Owl said:
I just sent a email that included the phrase "Do you have any insight as to why the resident might have thought that?" I figured it was better than "what the F#@& are they thinking?" I deserve a post work beer.
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I sent a colleague an email basically to put his pants on, stop entertaining a resident that is pestering you about something the feds have absolutely NO oversight of. The town needs to just take it on the chin and deal with the NIMBY BANANA themselves.
 
But inner rage is me internalizing my rage and smiling to the world - outer rage is rare - my fuse is very long
 
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